In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.
Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples’ potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how–by saying less and asking more–you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.
– Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question
– Stay on track during any interaction with The Awe Question
– Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question
– and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question
– Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question
– and The Foundation Question
– Ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question
A fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work–and your workplace–from good to great.
“Coaching is an art and it’s far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide and answer, or unleash a solution. giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part – how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice.
–Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly
* it was not (too) repetitive
* I recognized myself in many of the “bad” examples - and these are the ones I already knew I wanted to change
* the suggestions make sense
* even before finishing I started applying some of the advice and I’ve seen it work
* it recognizes that some situations/behaviors are hard or even impossible to change, so goal is to recognize it faster so you get out of it sooner
Perhaps the only thing I missed is a summary. While I think reading the book is advised, I think the key points (both the 7 questions and the additional advice) can probably be summarized in 2-3 nicely formatted pages, that would be great to keep afterwards. But, I guess that would be as helpful as giving advice during coaching - much more useful if the reader creates such themselves :-)